For those of us in Iowa, it's a bittersweet day — the Iowa party caucuses are tonight, which means that the crush of media attention has reached its crescendo and that we finally get to stand up for our candidates tonight. But it also means that Iowa will revert to its Is-it-Idaho-or-Iowa-or-Ohio status after tonight. A quarter million Iowans will show up tonight, after which we'll revert to a state of pigs and corn to be largely ignored until around 2010.I went out this morning downtown and found the place crawling with network uplink trucks. The Polk County Convention center looks more like St. Elsewhere this morning, and the East Village has several streets shut down so that the nightly newscasts can get a nice backdrop of the Iowa state capitol.
I'll be doing my bit as Ankeny 6 precinct captain for Obama tonight, then be pretty happy when it's all over.
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